I.ancaster, Windsor Publications, Woodland Hills, Calif. 1978, p. 118. 8. Ellis and Evans', History of Lancaster County, p. 593, quoted in Heisey's, 44The Art of Photography in Lancaster County," Lancaster County Historical Society Papers, vol. 51 (Lancaster, Pa.), p. 97. 9. The Columbia Spy, March 27, 1852

which it was used and what part of the early community life it contributed; and to clothe, upon the skeleton history of the very earliest days of our splendid valleys, the flesh and blood, and thereby to add the life of that history, and to reveal something more of the character, aims and general

The Early Settlement and History of Little Britain Township, Including Fulton Township The first survey and grant of lands in Lancaster county was in this town- ship, Little Britain, which included in its early settlement the territory now called Fulton township, and consti- tutes the extreme

& Columbia locomotive "Robert Crane." Built by Norris Locomotive Works, Lancaster, Pa., 1864. Became Phila. and Reading No. 1088. Scrapped De- cember 1897. (Photo credit: Collection of the late J. Jay Wisler; Earl Strickler, Columbia, Pa./ Superintendent Wilson of the R. & C. and G. A. Nicholls, president of

for newspaper ad in Public Ledger. 6 July 1878. Insert 9 Approved 23 and 26 July 1878 Invoice from Jacob Gundaker, auctioneer, for services at City Water Works of boilers and machinery. 11 July 1878. Invoice for water pipe purchase from West Reading Pipe and Machine Works, Mellert & Co. 13 July 1878

The Lancaster Reading Room By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Among the rare books in the valuable library of the Hon. Charles I. Landis, presiding judge of the Second Judicial District, Lancaster county, Pa., is a pamphlet entitled : "Articles of ASSOCIATION OF THE LANCASTER READING ROOM, to which are

in this group. "Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, 587-588. 'Brubaker, "The Underground Railroad", 110; Whitson, "The Early Abo- litionists", 89; and, Martha B. Clark, "Lancaster County's Relation to Slavery", L.C.H.S.P., XV, No. 2 (Feb., 1911) 43-61. "See Deed Book H, Vol. 7, 465 (April 5

Impress of Early Names and Traits From an early period in its history the population of Pennsylvania was composed of people representing vari- ous nationalities. They have all left an impress which is discerned distinc- tively in many localities. Our earliest pioneers were the Dutch, who settled

Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and